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Images of woman and child from the Bronze Age : reconsidering fertility, maternity, and gender in the ancient world
- Title
- Images of woman and child from the Bronze Age : reconsidering fertility, maternity, and gender in the ancient world / Stephanie Lynn Budin.
- Author
- Budin, Stephanie Lynn.
- Publication
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011, ©2011.
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Details
- Description
- x, 384 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
- Summary
- "This book is a study of the woman-and-child motif as it appeared in the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean, focusing on Egypt, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Iran, Cyprus, and the Aegean. Rather than being a universal symbol of maternity, or a depiction of a mother goddess, the woman-and-child motif, called by the technical name kourotrophos, was relatively rare in comparison with other images of women in antiquity, and served a number of different symbolic functions, ranging from honoring the king of Egypt to giving extra oomph to magical spells"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction - Kourotrophic iconography in the ancient near East and Mediterranean: origins and meanings -- Egypt -- The Levant and Anatolia -- Mesopotamia and Iran -- Cyprus -- The Aegean -- Conclusions.
- Call Number
- JFF 12-633
- ISBN
- 9780521193047 (hardback)
- 0521193044 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2010044866
- OCLC
- YBP 2010044866
- Author
- Budin, Stephanie Lynn.
- Title
- Images of woman and child from the Bronze Age : reconsidering fertility, maternity, and gender in the ancient world / Stephanie Lynn Budin.
- Imprint
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011, ©2011.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 12-633